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After years in the planning stage and much anticipation, St. Catharine College will break ground on the new Emily W. Hundley Library and Center for Graduate Studies at 5 p.m. on Nov. 14.

The public is invited and encouraged to attend. In addition to the new library and graduate school, the $8 million facility will also house classrooms, conference rooms, study areas and a café. St. Catharine College President, William D. Huston, said the new building will be the crown jewel of the campus and the center of student life at SCC.

Hundreds of flag-waving family, friends, and Americans packed the terminal at Louisville International Airport on Oct. 23 to welcome home veterans returning from a trip to Washington, D.C.

Twenty-nine veterans, ranging in age from 85 to 92, went on a one-day trip that was sponsored by Salt River Electric, Kentucky’s Touchstone Energy Cooperatives, and the Bluegrass Chapter of the Honor Flight Network. While in Washington, D.C. the veterans visited the World War II Memorial.

Two new scores are appearing on report cards across the county that may have parents scratching their heads.

“(On the report cards), they have this new column that says your Lexile and Quantile score. Essentially it would say 1130L, 1065Q,” Cherry Boyles, instructional supervisor with Washington County Schools, said. “Without knowing what it is, I would have no idea what this means.”

Michael L. Hamilton, 25, of West Main Street, Springfield, was recently charged with trafficking in a controlled substance, a first-degree, class C felony.

According to the indictment, on or about Oct. 7, 2009, Hamilton trafficked in cocaine in Washington County.
Hamilton was also indicted on a separate charge of the same nature that occurred on Oct. 14, 2009 in Washington County.
Bond was set at $15,000 cash for both indictments, with the condition that Hamilton have no contact with drugs or alcohol.
Other indictments include:

Springfield native, Katherine Fields, 20, recently won the Miss UK Thoroughbred pageant at the University of Kentucky.

Fields – who was nominated by her Alpha Delta Pi sisters to be the sorority’s representative – was one of 12 contestants in the pageant. She said she wanted to show her gratitude to her sorority sisters by representing them to the best of her ability.
“It meant a lot to win because I was representing them, and even Springfield,” Fields said via e-mail.

For a little while on Friday morning, the Washington County High School gym served as a memorial for veterans.

“You know today, you hear a lot of talk about heroes from Kobe, LeBron, Tom Brady, and so forth and so on,” Paul Terrell, WCHS principal said. “But the real heroes are the people sitting to my right and left. They are the heroes of our time.”
The heroes he was referring to were local veterans, nearly 50 in attendance, who came out to celebrate Veteran’s Day.

Though he acknowledges that his job in the military was an honor, Tim Robinson shrugs off the notion that it’s a big deal.

“I never really thought that what I did was that big of a deal,” he said. “Even to this day, I still don’t think it is. The reason why I feel that way is because I think there are a lot of veterans out there who have done a lot more than I did when I was at Arlington Cemetery, by laying their life down in combat zone.”

Washington County High School’s Early College program played host to a special guest from Washington D.C. on Wednesday of last week.

Dr. Mariana Haynes, a senior fellow at Alliance for Excellent Education, stopped by to learn about Kentucky’s secondary education intiatives, which included Washington County High School’s Early College program.

Haynes was joined by Cindy Parker, a literacy coordinator with the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE).